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The Boston Home is proud to be the beneficiary of the 30th Annual Oldtime Baseball Game Coming to Cambridge, August 2024!

Watch this space! The date for the 30th Annual Oldtime Baseball Game is coming soon!

Thank you Oldtime Baseball Game!

The 29th annual game was a home run for The Boston Home

The Boston Home extends our deepest appreciation to all of the event organizers, players, sponsors, families and supporters who made the 29th annual Abbot Financial Management Oldtime Baseball Game such a magical night for The Boston Home community. Special thanks to Aidan Freeburg, Steve Buckley, Sean Flanagan, Fred Lynn, Lenny Clark, Ben Weiss, Andrew Novelline, Jesse Haley, Carol Jones, Amber Bassett and Paul Wahlberg. Funds raised at the game will support essential, life-enhancing programs for The Boston Home residents and outpatients.

There is still time to make a gift today to help us reach our Oldtime Baseball Game goal of raising $80,000 in honor of #8 Aidan Freeburg and in support of life-enhancing programs for The Boston Home's residents and outpatients.

About Aidan Freeburg

Aidan Freeburg, a standout pitcher from Arlington, was diagnosed with MS at 19 years old during his sophomore year at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. In spite of periodic setbacks to his health, Aidan persisted on his path to a BS in Mechanical Engineering and played all four years of NCAA baseball.

Aidan has been a longstanding presence and player at his beloved Oldtime Baseball Game, demonstrating his talent, drive and passion for the sport. He is also a veteran player for the Lexington Blue Sox, winning two Intercity Baseball League awards for his pitching. Now 28, he is a Laser Applications Engineer and has been very active in raising funds for MS research.

For Aidan, this year’s Oldtime Baseball Game represents the convergence of his two greatest passions: baseball and MS. He is excited and honored to raise awareness and support The Boston Home’s mission to provide exceptional clinical care, innovative programs and access for greater independence and quality of life.

About Oldtime Baseball Game

The Oldtime Baseball Game is a celebration of our national pastime, played each year at beautiful St. Peter’s Field on Sherman Street in North Cambridge. From its humble beginnings in 1994, the game has grown considerably over the years, yet has remained loyal to its mission of offering a glimpse of what it was like in the old days, when hundreds of fans would turn out to root for their “town” team in various local semipro leagues.

What makes the Oldtime Baseball Game so special is our dazzling collection of flannel uniforms that represent virtually every era in baseball history. Used just once a year for the Oldtime Baseball Game, and then returned to storage the uniforms include such long ago teams as the Boston Braves, St. Louis Browns and Brooklyn Dodgers. Teams from the old Negro Leagues are represented by the Kansas City Monarchs, Homestead Grays and Baltimore Elite Giants. Cuba is represented by the legendary Cienfuegos Elefantes. We even have a uniform from a team that never actually existed: the New York Knights for whom Robert Redford’s Roy Hobbs character played in “The Natural.”

Players from the game are chosen from colleges and universities from throughout New England, with an occasional high school player or retired big-leaguer added to the mix. Hall of Fame pitcher Pedro Martinez came out of retirement in 2017 to work two shutout innings in the Oldtime Baseball Game. The 2018 game featured one of the most interesting pitcher-batter match-ups in our game’s history, as legendary Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield faced Pro Hockey Hall of Fame defenseman Raymond Bourque. In 2019, seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens pitched pitched two innings, and then played two more innings at first base. Jim Lonborg, Cy Young Award winner for the 1967 Red Sox, pitched a shutout inning in 2015. Other former big-leaguers include Oil Can Boyd, Mike Pagliarulo, and, of course, Lou Merloni, an annual fixture at the Oldtime Baseball Game.

Thank you to our generous sponsors!

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